Addiction Consultation Services for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Initiation and Engagement: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) are highly effective, but only 22% of individuals in the US with opioid use disorder receive them. Hospitalization potentially provides an opportunity to initiate MOUD and link patients to ongoing treatment.

Objective

To study the effectiveness of interprofessional hospital addiction consultation services in increasing MOUD treatment initiation and engagement.

Design, setting, and participants

This pragmatic stepped-wedge cluster randomized implementation and effectiveness (hybrid type 1) trial was conducted in 6 public hospitals in New York, New York, and included 2315 adults with hospitalizations identified in Medicaid claims data between October 2017 and January 2021. Data analysis was conducted in December 2023

SUBMITTER: McNeely J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11287446 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature